alt Hacker NewsYou seem to be externalizing the cost of verifying that a thing is true. The cost is nontrivial.
Consider for a moment that all of science is, in some way or another, the search for truth. I have a hard time seeing that any one person—or even any one person with an amazing computer program—can substitute for generations of humans trying to achieve that goal. It is extremely difficult to know what is objectively true.
What a weird take on things: you are currently externalizing the non-trivial cost of verifying that a thing is true.
When you want to understand something as true, you are the one who has to verify it, implicitly. People currently are used to others (supposedly) doing that for them. That doesn't mean, it wasn't externalized.
Now, you're right about individuals being overtaxed without the collaborative effort of society. You have to have chains of trust to have any chance, or personalized AI (which again you would have to trust).
But I was talking about the process of filtering truth collectively. You start from what you believe to know now, team up with others sharing your opinions and go from there. Revising your preconceived convictions is part of proper science.